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The pandemic has many people questioning whether they ever want to go back to the office.
A deeper appreciation for science and less unnecessary spending could be in our future.
The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
A study of 1.6 million people ties high incomes with more positive emotions and fewer negative ones, but only towards the self.
The contact binary system KIC 9832227 is worth another look. Astronomers have seen some incredible occurrences across space and time. The nova of the star GK Persei, shown here in an […]
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Darwin was right again—sort of.
By the end of the decade, we may discover one million black holes. A large enough mass in a compact volume inevitably forms a black hole. Both inside and outside the […]
A physicist creates an AI algorithm that predicts natural events and may prove the simulation hypothesis.
Proteus could someday be used to create extremely strong and lightweight armor and locks.
The new tool may someday be used in work that needs a light touch.
So far, 30 student teams have entered the Indy Autonomous Challenge, scheduled for October 2021.
Intrapreneurs tap into the spirit of entrepreneurialism to innovate and find personal meaning at work, but organizations need to celebrate their efforts more.
There was less than a 2 second delay between gravitational waves and light, but that’s incredibly meaningful. There’s an important rule in relativity that — as far as we know — all objects must […]
Welcome to the 13.8 relaunch, a new Big Think column led by physicists and friends Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is often labeled a quintessential Spanish artist, but his allegiance may well have lied with the French Enlightenment instead.
If everything eventually dies and decays, is there a way to prolong the inevitable? Our Universe, as it exists today, puts us in an incredibly privileged position. Had we come […]
Smallpox was nothing new in 1721.
The Chumash people poked bits of psychoactive plants into cave ceilings next to their paintings.
Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation.
It’s not the caffeine; it’s the people.
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead.
Uncovering the story of Milan Hausner, the Sadská clinic, and LSD psychotherapy behind the Iron Curtain.
User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.
Despite Betelgeuse’s recent faintening and brightening, I’d bet on these stars instead. Betelgeuse, a nearby red supergiant, will someday explode. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way should […]